I could in theory feed a signal to a television. I don't have a television, though, and to watch movies I set my monitor on the coffee table. If you calculate the field of vision, a large monitor nearby has an image just as large as a big TV across the room. Or so goes my justification:) Anyway, the picture on the monitor is outstanding, and I don't want to pay for a television.
Actually, on my vaio Z505, all that is required to play a DVD is to put in the DVD disc, and hit the play button. No mouse required. You can scan to the previous and next chapter with the jog dial, too.
Electric buses (which the Municipal Railroad calls trolleys) are used extensively. There are 173 miles of overhead lines for these busses (source). In addition, there is an under- and above-ground light rail system which serves many parts of the city. The system is underground along market street, and above ground everywhere else. Finally, surface street cars are operated on Market street. This is known as the "F" line, which employs many historic street cars retired from other cities' transit systems.
Electric Trolley:
As the article admits, the infrastructure expense here is prohibitive, and why do this when self-contained electric vehicles are becoming more and more feasible?
You must be joking. The infrastructure costs of aeffective urban transit ar dwarfed by the infrastructure costs of every person having their own automobile. The waste of valuable real estate alone is enough to damn the automobile, but there are many others. One of the large expenses is the thousands (millions?) of people engaged in manufacturing and repairing private automobiles. A large city might have a few hundred mechanics for its subway rolling stock, but the same city will have a lot more mechanics for its private automobiles. Then of course there is the fuel delivery infrastructure, which includes gas stations, storage tanks, pipelines, refineries, and even the navy. Add in the last and largest cost, that of storing the hazardous auto waste products in our air, sea, land, and lungs.
On the other side, you have public transportation. There are large one-time costs to build a public transit system, such as the contruction of tunnels. However, the ongoing costs are very small. It is easy to make light rail trucks that last essentially forever, and the same is true of passenger car chassis. Continuous-weld rails and concrete ties are also very durable. Contrast with roads which are easily damaged by rainfall, freezing weather, and cable laying. Public transportation also has a very high ridership compared to the private automobile. Most private automobiles are only used during a fraction of their lifetimes, whereas a rail car can be in nearly continuous use.
I hope you can see that the cost of private auto ownership are collectively much large than that of uban public transportation.
It would be okay (with me:) if the renderer performed the correct calculation using the host's CPU instead of the wrong calculation using the display adapter's CPU. If you can turn it off, you'll make the people with slow CPUs happy as well.
In this month's Communications of the ACM, an article by Carnegie Mellon University researchers describes a device of this type which outperforms existing disk technology using an array of only 20 sensor tips. No such device has yet been built.
The article is available from the ACM in PDF format. A paid membership, or a small one-time fee, is required.
Tons of AOL/Netscape money goes back to Mozilla. They employ dozens of programmers and peripheral support people, they provide the network which hosts the Mozilla project, and they provide the build farm upon which Mozilla is built.
Hahah, the author of that article must have hit the pipe a few too many times before writing that article. Quoth he:
Netscape does not own Mozilla, and if for some reason AOL cut the financial umbilical cord, Mozilla would continue to operate without the slightest of hiccups.
Ehehahahahehehahah
If Netscape cut funding for the Mozilla project, Mozilla would lose:
Dozens of its most active developers
the web site
the cvs server
the bug tracking system
the automatic build farm
a large collection of testcases and specs that live on hosts inside the Netscape firewall
many other important resources
If Netscape killed Mozilla funding, that would be a very serious blow which Mozilla might not survive.
What did you think of this year's San Francisco ballots? I thought that they were very easy to use, but a little unwieldy. Their main usability feature seems to be that when you feed the ballot into the machine, the machine will warn you if you made any mistakes, and you can tear up your ballot and be issued a new one. Obviously this would have fixed the 19,000+ Palm Beach ballots that were double-punched.
The woman who was standing in line in front of me at my polling place managed to vote yes and no on three city propositions. I don't think she was very bright, but at least she got a second shot at it.
Can you explain the mock-up? I don't understand What you are trying to say? All of the ballot books that I have seen (and we did not use them this year in San Francisco) have plastic flip pages with a center row of plastic or metal holes. The ballot is placed in the book by pushing it all the way up to a hard stop, and sometimes by placing holes over pegs for alignment.
So where is all this play coming from in your mock-up? If the play wasn't exactly the same as the hole pitch of the ballot, the voting machine wouldn't have worked at all.
Well, that's a cute common argument, but the fact is that the editor is almost free. The parser style, and toolkit code already exists to support the browser, and the editor code itself already exists to support HTML form controls like TEXTAREA.
Normally I agree with the principle that a person or group has the right to refuse to interact with another person or group. However, the case of cable companies and their services are different. In most cities of the United States, the cable company has been granted special status by the people through the power of the local government. The cable company operates under a charter which grants them monopoly power, tax breaks, public funding, and more. Thus, the cable operator which operates under such a charter cannot generally refuse service to someone just because that person is on their bad side. The cable operators give up this right in exchange for special dispensation from the people.
If cable operators had gained their monopoly powers through practices which allowed fair and open competition, the right to refuse services would of course apply.
Technologically, this is easy. Setup a linux box as a NAT router with a transparent squid proxy. Do not give the kid the root password for the router. (Do give the kid root on his own computer so he can learn). Once in a while, scan the squid logs.
The kid can bypass this by using an external SSL proxy. If he does, he has won the arms race and is obviously ready to take on some pr0n;)
Again you have missed my point. I do *not* think that the local government should be operating a single router, switch, or DNS server. They should *only* be in the business of running wires from point A to point B, and leasing floor space at point A to whatever private group wants it. Competition is impeded because of the enormous hurdle that new competitors must jump by trenching streets to run new cable. By operating the cable infrastructure itself, governments could open competition more widely.
Your anti-socialism mechanism is producing false positives.
You've completely missed the point of my proposal. My proposal allows for each individual to make up his own mind about what services he wants running down that wire. It is the ultimate control.
Regarding cable television, I agree that the technology means that your decision has to be shared with other people. The solution is to abandon the dying broadcast technologies and run very high bandwidth fiber end to end. Technology will make this possible soon. At any rate, the less television you watch the better.:)
It certainly is necessary and practical. The cable infrastructure which carries information to the people is every bit as important as the road, sewer, water distribution, and garbage collection services which are already run by local governments. These functions are often contracted to private entities, but the fact remains that they are operated by the people and in the people's interest.
While it may be true that the Atlanta government is a mess (I don't live there, so I don't know), the fact is that you, as a citizen of Atlanta, are your own goverment.
I'd feel a lot better about cable operations if the people owned their own cable plants. That is, I believe it would be ideal for the citizens of a city to own and operate the cable television, telephone, and electric facilities in their city via their local government.
In such a system, open access would be the norm. Service providers would have equal access to the "other end" of the cables running into every home, and the citizen who was served by that cable would make the decision to hook it up to one or the other.
Hopefully in such a system, we wouldn't have pointlessly diverse content delivery systems (coax, twisted pair, circuit switched, packet switched, etc.), but instead be blessed with an all-fiber network that runs right into the point of delivery.
Doesn't anyone else think that the people should empower themselves this way?
I saw this juicey bit over at the AlphaLinux Homepage.. The Linux kernel's assembly routines for Alpha have been updated, resulting in a large system performance boost on EV6 machines.
If you take the stance that people should be using business resources for personal email, which is a stance that I disagree with strongly, an SSL connection to your webmail provider is the easy answer.
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I could in theory feed a signal to a television. I don't have a television, though, and to watch movies I set my monitor on the coffee table. If you calculate the field of vision, a large monitor nearby has an image just as large as a big TV across the room. Or so goes my justification :) Anyway, the picture on the monitor is outstanding, and I don't want to pay for a television.
Actually, on my vaio Z505, all that is required to play a DVD is to put in the DVD disc, and hit the play button. No mouse required. You can scan to the previous and next chapter with the jog dial, too.
Ahh i see your idea: replace overhead electrical distribution with fuel cells or whatever in each individual vehicle. Sounds like a good plan :)
Electric buses (which the Municipal Railroad calls trolleys) are used extensively. There are 173 miles of overhead lines for these busses (source). In addition, there is an under- and above-ground light rail system which serves many parts of the city. The system is underground along market street, and above ground everywhere else. Finally, surface street cars are operated on Market street. This is known as the "F" line, which employs many historic street cars retired from other cities' transit systems.
You must be joking. The infrastructure costs of aeffective urban transit ar dwarfed by the infrastructure costs of every person having their own automobile. The waste of valuable real estate alone is enough to damn the automobile, but there are many others. One of the large expenses is the thousands (millions?) of people engaged in manufacturing and repairing private automobiles. A large city might have a few hundred mechanics for its subway rolling stock, but the same city will have a lot more mechanics for its private automobiles. Then of course there is the fuel delivery infrastructure, which includes gas stations, storage tanks, pipelines, refineries, and even the navy. Add in the last and largest cost, that of storing the hazardous auto waste products in our air, sea, land, and lungs.
On the other side, you have public transportation. There are large one-time costs to build a public transit system, such as the contruction of tunnels. However, the ongoing costs are very small. It is easy to make light rail trucks that last essentially forever, and the same is true of passenger car chassis. Continuous-weld rails and concrete ties are also very durable. Contrast with roads which are easily damaged by rainfall, freezing weather, and cable laying. Public transportation also has a very high ridership compared to the private automobile. Most private automobiles are only used during a fraction of their lifetimes, whereas a rail car can be in nearly continuous use.
I hope you can see that the cost of private auto ownership are collectively much large than that of uban public transportation.
I dunno. Why don't you tell us? Don't forget to cite and hyperlink primary sources.
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It would be okay (with me :) if the renderer performed the correct calculation using the host's CPU instead of the wrong calculation using the display adapter's CPU. If you can turn it off, you'll make the people with slow CPUs happy as well.
The article is available from the ACM in PDF format. A paid membership, or a small one-time fee, is required.
Tons of AOL/Netscape money goes back to Mozilla. They employ dozens of programmers and peripheral support people, they provide the network which hosts the Mozilla project, and they provide the build farm upon which Mozilla is built.
Ehehahahahehehahah
If Netscape cut funding for the Mozilla project, Mozilla would lose:
- Dozens of its most active developers
- the web site
- the cvs server
- the bug tracking system
- the automatic build farm
- a large collection of testcases and specs that live on hosts inside the Netscape firewall
- many other important resources
If Netscape killed Mozilla funding, that would be a very serious blow which Mozilla might not survive.The woman who was standing in line in front of me at my polling place managed to vote yes and no on three city propositions. I don't think she was very bright, but at least she got a second shot at it.
So where is all this play coming from in your mock-up? If the play wasn't exactly the same as the hole pitch of the ballot, the voting machine wouldn't have worked at all.
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Well, that's a cute common argument, but the fact is that the editor is almost free. The parser style, and toolkit code already exists to support the browser, and the editor code itself already exists to support HTML form controls like TEXTAREA.
Gee, that sounds an aweful lot like Backflip, who, by the way, are Fucked.
If cable operators had gained their monopoly powers through practices which allowed fair and open competition, the right to refuse services would of course apply.
The kid can bypass this by using an external SSL proxy. If he does, he has won the arms race and is obviously ready to take on some pr0n ;)
Your anti-socialism mechanism is producing false positives.
Regarding cable television, I agree that the technology means that your decision has to be shared with other people. The solution is to abandon the dying broadcast technologies and run very high bandwidth fiber end to end. Technology will make this possible soon. At any rate, the less television you watch the better. :)
It certainly is necessary and practical. The cable infrastructure which carries information to the people is every bit as important as the road, sewer, water distribution, and garbage collection services which are already run by local governments. These functions are often contracted to private entities, but the fact remains that they are operated by the people and in the people's interest.
Sieze power.
In such a system, open access would be the norm. Service providers would have equal access to the "other end" of the cables running into every home, and the citizen who was served by that cable would make the decision to hook it up to one or the other.
Hopefully in such a system, we wouldn't have pointlessly diverse content delivery systems (coax, twisted pair, circuit switched, packet switched, etc.), but instead be blessed with an all-fiber network that runs right into the point of delivery.
Doesn't anyone else think that the people should empower themselves this way?
I saw this juicey bit over at the AlphaLinux Homepage.. The Linux kernel's assembly routines for Alpha have been updated, resulting in a large system performance boost on EV6 machines.
If you take the stance that people should be using business resources for personal email, which is a stance that I disagree with strongly, an SSL connection to your webmail provider is the easy answer.